Word: bipolar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Report of further experiments to prove his bipolar theory of life came from Cleveland's Dr. George Washington Crile. He considers that every living cell is a tiny electrical cell, that the body is a battery with the brain the positive pole and the liver the negative pole (TIME, Aug. 30. 1926). Last week he reported that he had found that every living cell has a definite electrical potential, or tension; that as that potential decreases the cell becomes enfeebled until it dies. When an electric current with a potential opposite to that of a cell is passed through...
...applications to the principles involved. Sleep permits the brain to re-establish its positive load of electricity.* Such facts pertinent to a conception of life as an electrical phenomenon, Dr. Crile, with the editorial aid of his laboratory coworker, Amy F. W. Rowland, has collated in his book, A Bipolar Theory of Living Processes, just issued by Macmillan's ($5.00). His thesis is far from dogmatic. "We concede that our thesis has not been finally proven. Final proof is lacking regarding practically every point. We concede that the bipolar theory would fail to explain living processes if any other...